Create Digital Music » winter http://createdigitalmusic.com The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 On Demand: CDM Winter 2008, with Gift Guide, Bending and Slicing Tutorials, More http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/12/11/on-demand-cdm-winter-2008-with-gift-guide-bending-and-slicing-tutorials-more/ http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/12/11/on-demand-cdm-winter-2008-with-gift-guide-bending-and-slicing-tutorials-more/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:39:56 +0000 Peter Kirn http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/12/11/on-demand-cdm-winter-2008-with-gift-guide-bending-and-slicing-tutorials-more/ “What if, instead of targeting Web content to a single day, you turned it into an object that would last a season? What would you want to save and savor?”

That’s the question I ask at the beginning of the Create Digital Music Winter 08 guide. We’ve filled it with good stuff we love, plus good stuff we hear that you love (via our survey of hundreds of readers for the holiday guide). Via Creative Commons-licensed images, you’ve shared your world of music, and so we share the whole guide as fully free work (it’s got a CC Attribution / ShareAlike license).

Here’s some of what’s inside – we wanted stories that you’d want to live with the whole winter season:

  • Circuit bending 101 with Michael Una
  • Imagining synths: reflections on the design of electronic instruments with Dan McPharlin, creator of wonderful miniature synths handmade from cardboard
  • Tutorial on slicing audio to MIDI in Ableton Live 7, with tips from Live guru Francis Preve plus a free accompanying CDM pack designed by Covert Operators at http://covops.org/cdm
  • Holiday Guide, with your favorite gear and software of the year, listening and reading suggestions, and ideas on open hardware from monome creator Brian Crabtree
  • Creative tips for surviving winter in Berlin, courtesy monolake (Robert Henke)
  • Images from the CDM community and beyond

With the help of graphic editor Nathanael Jeanneret, the results are designed to be an object on paper or read on high-resolution displays. The PDF is available free, with an on-demand print version from Lulu available worldwide (US$19.99 before shipping). I just ordered my print copy rush, so I’ll let you know what it looks like as this is the first time we’ve tried this.

Print Edition + Free PDF Download @ Lulu.com

Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.

A big thanks to our sponsors for making this possible:

Ableton Live, our premiere sponsor; now with an unlimited 14-day trial

Audiofile Engineering, makers of Wave Editor for Mac

Highly Liquid DIY MIDI electronics maker

Covert Operators, creators of Live Packs and video tutorials for Ableton Live

I’m really eager to hear what you think.

]]> http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/12/11/on-demand-cdm-winter-2008-with-gift-guide-bending-and-slicing-tutorials-more/feed/ 35 Video: Found Music at the Bottom of the World http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/07/video-found-music-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/ http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/07/video-found-music-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:30:06 +0000 Peter Kirn http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/07/video-found-music-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/ Got some time on your hands? Wine glasses, stuff to knock? Camera? Happen to be deep in the Southern Hemisphere at the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station and your fellow scientists have a winter film festival on? Scientists Rob Webster (music) and Jim Elliot (video) found themselves in that situation, and came up with this rather beautiful creation:

(No need to adjust your set: that opening is silent, as I expect the Rothera Research Station is sometimes.)

It’s all another reminder that musical ideas are all around you, wherever you may be — and sometimes it’s very good to get away from the computer screen.

Also, to those of you constantly complaining about the weather in Berlin – considered Antarctica?

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